May 2012
6 posts
Watchword.
a reflection on warmth and gratitude.
it’s 5:20 am and i just got back from dropping my parents off at the Grenada airport. i’m writing this because capturing moments and feelings is important to me. i felt something akin to this when i left the US after visiting my parents over winter break. warmth and gratitude. it just reiterates to me the recurring theme of this year: the power of relationships to inspire and change....
“Do not pursue the past.
Do not lose yourself in the future.
The past no longer...”
– Thich Nhat Hanh, Our Appointment With Life: The Buddha’s Teaching on Living in the Present.
April 2012
8 posts
Condor Ave re-recorded.
this week has been...
I woke up last night with a giant cockroach on my face. The end.
“At the very end of life, there is no second chance to get it right”
– from my “end of life” pharmacology lecture notes.
“learning that growing up can happen at any age…”
Mettā.
i wanted to write this post as a reminder to myself, because this is a lesson i’ve learned before, but didn’t practice consistently the first time around. almost every week this term, i’ve been attending a group mindfulness meditation workshop. the theme of yesterday’s session was to watch our thoughts mindfully. we ended the session with Mettā meditation, which required us...
“If you want something you’ve never had, you need to do something you’ve never...”
– http://nervousacid.org/post/297251219/the-top-50-albums-of-the-2000s-1
March 2012
4 posts
Domestic Violence Against Women: How to Spot... →
i DESPISE yahoo! news. despise. it’s terribly written, horribly biased, and has some of the worst commenters writing comments on the internet. yet somehow, in their “love & sex” section, they have a decent article (not terribly well-researched of course) but i was pleased with the subject matter and much of the discourse taking place in the comments section.
February 2012
5 posts
Mosquito
Something so tiny and inconsequential as one mosquito can wreak havoc on my medical education and social affect. It’s amazing.
It’s approaching 3 am. The wind is howling, music is blasting from all sides of the semipermeable walls that surround me, and drunken students across the street are courting each other while yelling to annunciate each slurred syllable, and it sounds as if...
January 2012
8 posts
cognitive appraisal anyone? →
